RE: Rethinking Hive author rewards: How can we improve the distribution of rewards?

I get downvoted with say $80+ posts, and I don't really mind, although I always do my best.

I think we should start minding this to be honest. While the intent is to distribute the reward pool a bit more and it makes sense, it also tends to ignore the general performance of whoever received the upvotes. Some people may put in a ton of effort into a post and they get next to nothing, then on one lucky day get $70 only to have that post downvoted. But then there'll be other people that post daily and get constant whale support around $30 that end up being ignored. It's a bit of a broken system.

KE also is fundamentally broken, but because it assumes people are paying attention to begin with. There are curators of big initiatives that hold less Hive than I do with a KE that's double (there's one that has a KE of almost 32 and making $250+ per month excluding the beneficiaries and tips they receive, and almost daily sends Hive to an exchange). Yet the people that end up being targeted for being extractors tend to have significantly lower KE ratios than the people that get daily appreciator upvotes.

Take a quick glance at this other person (not part of any curation efforts) who seems to do incredibly well on here despite almost never curating others and remains in a constant power down. KE almost at 20 (current HP held is 1.7k), but the upvotes continue to flow in.

The whole KE thing also doesn't really take into consideration that people shouldn't be expected to hold the vast majority of their earnings. In the long term an aggressive stance on KE would only limit the certain types of content that ends up here. Like people on YouTube may use their earnings to fund better equipment: improved lighting, better cameras/lenses etc. In that instance, someone with a poor KE but improving their video quality setup for making videos at home is more justified than someone with a poor KE that is posting phone pictures of fancy cafes every day.